The rapid growth of offshoring has sparked a contentious debate over its impact on the U.S. manufacturing sector, which … has recorded steep employment declines yet strong output growth - a fact reconciled by the notable gains in manufacturing … generally are not captured in input cost and import price indexes. To assess the implications of offshoring bias for …

, little is known about the impact of institutional quality on offshoring. This is surprising, given that offshoring has become … between institutional quality and offshoring. The results suggest that weak institutions are negatively related to offshoring … in general and to offshoring of R&D-intensive goods in particular. Furthermore, firms that are able to establish long …

. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation, offshoring, and tougher bargaining with labor unions. We show that …

growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U ….S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant bias to manufacturing and, where offshoring is involved, aggregate … impossible to fully assess the impact that mismeasurement and cost savings from outsourcing and offshoring have had on measured …

.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent above the 1993 trough. Employment rates tell a similar story. Our …

capital affects work-family conflict and how both social capital and work-family conflict affect employment. I analyze the …: it keeps them out of the labor force and makes it more difficult for women who want to work to maintain employment …

women who serve in such disproportionate numbers. This paper investigates the civilian employment experiences of female … evaluate the employment experiences of female veterans. Second, data from an audit study of civilian hiring practices provides … force attachment. Only white women show slightly lower rates of employment (among those in the labor force), while black …